Life 5: Student Book with CD-ROM - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1305256344 ISBN 13: 9781305256347

Publisher: National Geographic/(ELT), 2014

Synopsis

National Geographic Learning brings the world to your classroom with Life, a six-level integrated-skills series that develops fluency in American English. Through an exploration of real world content from National Geographic presented through stunning images, text, and video, learners will strengthen their existing global connections while learning the English skills needed for communication in the 21st century.

To encourage a generation of informed decision-makers, Life prepares learners to think critically while teaching the English skills needed communicate effectively through:
o Information-rich topics that naturally promote curiosity and challenge learners to understand the themes In English on a deeper level.
o Developing the 21st century skills needed in a technology-rich environment, like questioning authors and using visually literacy skills to infer meaning.
o Explicit ’Critical Thinking’ sections that take language learners from understanding, to evaluating, and finally to creating their own texts in English.

About this title

About the Author

Helen Stephenson first taught business English in the 1980s. She has written in-house training courses and a course for upper-secondary students. She teaches at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Geographic/(ELT)
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1305256344
• ISBN 13: 9781305256347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192